The United States is expected to abstain from Monday's scheduled United Nations Security Council vote on a resolution to forbid Israel from deporting Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat from the territories, according to Israeli and other diplomatic sources in New York.

According to these sources, the Security Council resolution ismoderate and restrained, and includes nothing the Americans "cannot live with."

that murderous pile of bilge would be a mistake, to expell him is a mistake.Either put him on trial for war crimes and let him spend the rest of his miserable life in solitary, or cut the electricity to his place in Ramalla, no calls in or out, no visitors, send in food and water 1x per wek and let him rot in his own stinky filth!

Dan Gillerman, said the Security Council has metrepeatedly to condemn Israeli actions, butignores Palestinian suicide bombings andshooting attacks on Israelis.

I've seen this claim made before, but what I don't understand is seeing as how every member of the UN can take complaints to the Security Council, how many times has Israel or the US brought a complaint about suicide bombings to it? The other thing is that this current resolution is clearly concerning something that is clearly seen by the Security Council as a threat to international security, which is what the SC deals with. How are suicide bombings a threat to international security? And is condemning non-state groups like Hamas part of the role of the SC, or do they only condemn states?

How many of those resolutions are binding? Most are condemnations after the fact, or non-binding resolutions. It is just because of the attacks that Israel has to defend itself. It doesn't expect you to risk your life, although by living in New York, I can say for certainty that your life is in danger.

United Nations Security Council vote on a resolution to forbid Israel from deporting Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat

This is the wording of the article. It's exactly what is being discused. "Deporting" is in the resolution and is the actual word.

For some reason all the "violence" up until the second intifada somehow always happened in Lebanon, Damascus, Cairo, etc.. I can't think of a country within Northern Africa and the Near East that Israel hasn't bombed, but somehow Israel is the victim?

You've just attempted to condense all of recorded history into two sentences. It's quite a challenge, and I don't think I'm up to trying to answer you at this time in the evening, to attempt to respond to this.

Israel's borders are still under attack. There have been terror attacks in every portion of the country going back to the early '60's. The children in Kibbutz children's houses were attacked and killed. School children on an outing in Ma'alot 1974(a small community in the north between Tzfatn and Nahariya)http://www.yesmalot.co.il/eng/history.html#tragedy

Yet Israel's defense forces have been able to repel massive attacks. This is due in part to the committment of the soldiers. Also, being a relatively small country, sneak attacks are probably strategically impossible. Attacks have been attempted from the sea. Again, these terrorists were spotted before they landed.

Yeah, maybe if we pretend that there's no such thing as international law and the Geneva Convention is nothing but a Star Trek covention that meets in Geneva every few years

Y'know, I wasn't expecting you to answer my questions because I figured you probably wouldn't have any answers, but I did expect something a little bit better than another bout of Blame The Arabs. In case it's escaped yr notice, there's a wide range of nations outside the Middle East that have spoken out against deporting Arafat...

"The United States does not support the elimination or the exile of Mr. Arafat. I think you can anticipate that there would be rage throughout the Arab world, the Muslim world and in many other parts of the world."

So the US is opposed to the summary execution of Arafat, but will not say that in the Security Council.

Is this the "leadership" Bush was babbling about during campaign 2000?

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